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HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
In-Network Snoop Ordering (INSO): Snoopy coherence on unordered interconnects
Realizing scalable cache coherence in the many-core era comes with a whole new set of constraints and opportunities. It is widely believed that multi-hop, unordered on-chip networ...
Niket Agarwal, Li-Shiuan Peh, Niraj K. Jha
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Techniques for bandwidth-efficient prefetching of linked data structures in hybrid prefetching systems
Linked data structure (LDS) accesses are critical to the performance of many large scale applications. Techniques have been proposed to prefetch such accesses. Unfortunately, many...
Eiman Ebrahimi, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Design and implementation of software-managed caches for multicores with local memory
Heterogeneous multicores, such as Cell BE processors and GPGPUs, typically do not have caches for their accelerator cores because coherence traffic, cache misses, and latencies fr...
Sangmin Seo, Jaejin Lee, Zehra Sura
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Practical off-chip meta-data for temporal memory streaming
Prior research demonstrates that temporal memory streaming and related address-correlating prefetchers improve performance of commercial server workloads though increased memory l...
Thomas F. Wenisch, Michael Ferdman, Anastasia Aila...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Bridging the computation gap between programmable processors and hardwired accelerators
New media and signal processing applications demand ever higher performance while operating within the tight power constraints of mobile devices. A range of hardware implementatio...
Kevin Fan, Manjunath Kudlur, Ganesh S. Dasika, Sco...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
A low-radix and low-diameter 3D interconnection network design
Interconnection plays an important role in performance and power of CMP designs using deep sub-micron technology. The network-on-chip (NoCs) has been proposed as a scalable and hi...
Bo Zhao, Jun Yang 0002, Xiuyi Zhou, Yi Xu, Youtao ...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Fast complete memory consistency verification
The verification of an execution against memory consistency is known to be NP-hard. This paper proposes a novel fast memory consistency verification method by identifying a new na...
Yunji Chen, Yi Lv, Weiwu Hu, Tianshi Chen, Haihua ...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Lightweight predication support for out of order processors
The benefits of Out of Order (OOO) processing are well known, as is the effectiveness of predicated execution for unpredictable control flow. However, as previous research has dem...
Mark Stephenson, Lixin Zhang, Ram Rangan
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Variation-aware dynamic voltage/frequency scaling
Fine-grained dynamic voltage/frequency scaling (DVFS) is an important tool in managing the balance between power and performance in chip-multiprocessors. Although manufacturing pr...
Sebastian Herbert, Diana Marculescu
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
PageNUCA: Selected policies for page-grain locality management in large shared chip-multiprocessor caches
As the last-level on-chip caches in chip-multiprocessors increase in size, the physical locality of on-chip data becomes important for delivering high performance. The non-uniform...
Mainak Chaudhuri